Praise Quotes · Page 37

Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

— Richard Branson

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

— Walter Savage Landor

“praise and recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the human spirit”

— John Adair

If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know who you are.

— Mother Theresa

Dont praise your wife or neighbours wife in front of your neighbor.

— Vikrant Parsai

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Sorry, but you owe me a drink. [Why?] Because when I looked at you, I dropped mine.

— Karan

The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not…

— Martial

“Having made this rather lofty comparison I am less uneasy in calling attention to the existence of low people by whose interference,…

— George Eliot

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for…

— Bertrand Russell

I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.

— Olly Alexander

“There’s no storm too big to praise your way through. You might not feel like it, but praising God in the middle…

— Janice Thompson

Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have…

— Tom Rath

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on…

— Michael Ignatieff

“In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of…

— Anonymous

Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not…

— Thomas Jefferson

As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism…

— Saint Basil

I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet…

— Randall Jarrell

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted…

— Mother Teresa

Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the…

— David St. John

“The act of praising and giving thanks to God brings untold blessing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Dont be to quick to judge Praise people LOUDLY but blame them softly.

— Rev Run

“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.”

— Hanif Kureishi

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you…

— Shura

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

— Alexander Pope

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When you are praising or blessing you are on the highest frequency of love.

— Rhonda Byrne

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

— Louisa May Alcott

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

— Haim Ginott

I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise.

— Noel Coward

“The earth is illuminated by the splendour of the Sovereign Lord.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection!”

— William Shakespeare

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

— John Berryman

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

— Charles Spurgeon